Mapping out rail line in midstate

According to a letter from John Shanno (Sept. 23), some folks will resort to any “data” to get to play with trains at taxpayer expense. He urges, based on his experience designing a station in 1984, the development of a train system running from Carlisle to Lancaster. A map check will show that this would be a west to east line.

To justify his proposal, he notes that Interstate 83 and U.S. Route 15 traffic is stop and go into Harrisburg. Another map check will show that both of these routes are north-south and would likely not develop any traffic on an east-west rail line.

This type of “thinking” seems to indicate that the “trainees” will say or do anything to get their new toy.